WHAT’S IN A (SCIENTIFIC) NAME

Flannery, T. F., and C. P. Groves (1998). A revision of the genus Zaglossus with description of new species and subspecies. Mammalia, 62 (3): 387-390.

Scanlon, J. D. (2001). Montypythonoides revisited: the Miocene snake Morelia riversleighensis and the question of pythonine origins. In Hand, S. J., and Laurie, J. R. (eds). Riversleigh Symposium 1998: Proceedings of a Research Symposium on Fossils from Riversleigh and Murgon, Queensland, held at the University of New South Wales, December 1998. Memoirs of the Association of Australasian Palaeontologists 25: 1-5.

Clack, J. A. (2001). Eucritta melanolimnetes from the Early Carboniferous of Scotland, a stem tetrapod showing a mosaic of characteristics. Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 92 (1): 75-95.

Erwin, T.L. (2000). Arboreal Beetles of Neotropical Forests: Taxonomic Supplement for the Agra virgata andohaustGroups with a New Species and Additional Distribution Records (Coleoptera: Carabidae). The Coleopterists Bulletin, 54: 251-262.

Erwin, T.L. (2000). Arboreal Beetles of Neotropical Forests: AgraFabricius, A Taxonomic Supplement for the Platyscelis Group with New Species and Distribution Records (Coleoptera: Carabidae, Lebiini, Agrina). The Coleopterists Bulletin, 54: 90-119.

Thompson, F. C., et al (1976). A Catalogue of the Americas South of the United States: Family Syrphidae. São Paulo, Brasil: Museu de Zoologia. http://www.archive.org/stream/familysyrphidae00thom#page/n1/mode/2up. Downloaded on 29.07.12.

Ratcliffe B.C. (1994). Orizabus subaziro, a new species from Mexico. The Coleopterists Bulletin, 48 (1): 91-93.

Harvey, M.S. and W. F. Humphreys (1995). Notes on the genus Draculoides Harvey (Schizomida: Hubbardiidae), with the description of a new troglobitic species. Records of the Western Australian Museum Supplement, 52: 183–189 [185].

Millidge, A. F. (1983). The Erigonine spiders of North America. Part 6.1, the genus Walckenaeria. Journal of Arachnology, 11:1O5-200.

Steadman, D. W. and M. C. Zarriello (1987). Two new species of parrots (Aves: Psittacidae) from archeological sites in the Marquesas Islands. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 100: 518–528.

Miller, J. Y. (1972). Review of the South American Castnia inca complex (Castniidae). Bulletin of the Allyn Museum, 6: 1-13.

Ittibittium Houbrick, (1993). Downloaded through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=473020 on 30.07.12.

Gofas, S. (2011). Bittium Leach in Gray, 1847. Downloaded through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=137758 on 30.07.12.

Muma, M. H., and Brookhart, J. (1988). The Eremobates palpisetulosus species-group (Solpugida: Eremobatidae) in the United States, pp. 1-65, plates 1-20. Published for the authors by Cherry Creek High School Print Shop, Englewood, Colorado.

TONGUES

Gans, C., and G.C. Gorniak (1982). How does the toad flip its tongue? Test of two hypotheses. Science, 216 (4552): 1335-1337.

Heiss, E., et al (2010). The fish in the turtle: on the functionality of the oropharynx in the common musk turtle concerning feeding and underwater respiration. The Anatomical Record: Advances in Integrative Anatomy and Evolutionary Biology, 293 (8): 1416-1424.

Rivas, J. A. (2000). The life history of the green anaconda (Eunectes murinus), with emphasis on its reproductive Biology (Ph.D. thesis). University of Tennessee. http://www.anacondas.org/diss/disser.pdf.

Anon (2009). Orcas play with their food, but don’t insist on the Chianti. Science in the News. The Royal Society of New Zealand. http://www.royalsociety.org.nz/2009/06/23/orca-livers/. Downloaded on 28.07.12.

Wiesskotten, S., et al (2011). Hydrodynamic discrimination of wakes caused by objects of different size or shape in a harbour seal. The Journal of Experimental Biology, 214: 1922-1930.

DOLPHINS AND FISHERMEN

Tun, T. (2004). Irrawaddy Dolphins in Hsithe – Mandalay segment of the Ayeyawady River and Cooperative Fishing Between Irrawaddy Dolphin, Orcaella brevirostris, and Cast-net Fishermen in Myanmar. A report submitted to the Wildlife Conservation Society. https://sites.google.com/site/tinttunmm/2004FebCoopfishingReport.pdf?attredirects=0. Downloaded on 22.07.12.

Mhatre, N., et al (2012). Changing resonator geometry to boost sound power decouples size and song frequency in a small insect. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 109 (22): E1444-E1452. (tree crickets).

Id. Gudger, (1928). Mola mola. The Scientific Monthly, 26: 257-261 and figs. New South Wales record-sized specimens; quotes article on Australian specimen
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Berg, L. S. (1962). Freshwater fishes of the USSR and adjacent countries. Volume 1. Translated from Russian. Israel Program for Scientific Translations. Jerusalem. [available from the Office of Technical Services, U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Washington] (sturgeon).

Agassiz, A. (1865). Illustrated catalogue of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College, number 2, page 44. published by order of the Legislature of Massachusetts. Downloaded on 02.08. 12. at Biodiversity Heritage Library. http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/4923.

Agassiz, A., and H. L. Clarke (1907). Preliminary reports on the Echini collected in 1906 from May to December among the Aleutian Islands in Bering Sea and along the coasts of Kamchatka, Sakhalin, Korea and Japan by the U.S. Fish Commission steamer Albatross. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard 51: 109-139 (1907). Downloaded on 02.08.12. at http://biostor.org/reference/58062.

Pawlick, J. R. (2008). Redwoods of the reef: new insights on the giant barrel sponge of the Caribbean. http://people.uncw.edu/pawlikj/xmuta.html. Downloaded on 02.08.12.

POISONOUS AND VENOMOUS

Fry, B., et al (2009). A central role for venom in predation by Varanus komodoensis (Komodo dragon) and the extinct giant Varanus (Megalania) priscus. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 126 (22): 8969-8974.

Gal, R., and F. Libersat (2010). A wasp manipulates neuronal activity in the sub-esophageal ganglion to decrease the drive for walking in its cockroach prey. PLoS ONE5(4):e10019.doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0010019.

de Ponte Machado, M. (2007). Is predation on seabirds a new foraging behaviour for great white pelicans? History, foraging strategies and prey defensive responses. In, Kirkman , S. P. (ed). Final Report of the Benguela Current Large Marine Ecosystem BCLME) Project on Top Predators as Biological Indicators of Ecosystem Change in the BCLME. Avian Demography Unit, Cape Town.

Blair Hedges, S. (2008). At the lower size limit in snakes: two new species of threadsnakes (Squamata: Leptotyphlopidae: Leptotyphlops) from the Lesser Antilles. Zootaxa, 1841: 1–30. http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2008/f/zt01841p030.pdf. Downloaded on 03.08.12.

Mockford, E.L. (1997). A new species of Dicomorpha (Hymenoptera: Mymaridae) with diminutive, apterous males. Annals of the Entomological Society of America, 90: 115-120.

Blair Hedges, S, and R. Thomas (2001). At the lower size limit in amniote vertebrates: a new diminutive lizard from the West Indies. Caribbean Journal of Science, 37 (3-4): 168-173.

Uriona, T. J., and C.G. Farmer (2008). Recruitment of the diaphragmaticus, ischipubis, and other respiratory muscles to control pitch and roll in the American alligator. Journal of Experimental Biology,211(7):1141-1147.

Wright, H. M. (1925). Big Game Fishing at Long Key Camp (promotional brochure reference to sailfish taking 400 ft of line in 4 seconds, from Wright’s original typewritten document offered for sale on eBay).

Sakamoto K. Q., et al (2009). From the eye of the albatrosses: a bird-borne camera shows an association between albatrosses and a killer whale in the Southern Ocean. PLoS ONE, 2009; 4(10): e7322.

Urquhart, F.A. and N.R. Urquhart (1977). Overwintering areas and migratory routes of the monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus) in North America, with special reference to the western population. Canadian Entomologist, 109: 1583-1589.

Satherley, J. (2011). Albino baby dolphin photographed off Brazilian coast becomes the first recorded of its species. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2069022/Albino-baby-dolphin-photographed-Brazilian-coast-recorded-species.html. Downloaded on 20.07.12.

Black, R. (2012). White killer whale adult spotted for first time in the wild. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-17783603. Downloaded on 04.08.12.

Bergquist, D. C., et al (2000). Longevity record for deep-sea invertebrate: the growth rate of a marine tubeworm is tailored to different environments. Nature, 403: 499-500.

Spadone, A. (2012). From exploring the bottom of the sea to better high seas fishery management. Reference to orange roughy in: http://portals.iucn.org/blog/2012/05/09/from-exploring-the-bottom-of-the-sea-to-better-high-seas-fisheries-management/. Downloaded on 27.07.12.

Oh, K. P., and A. V. Badyaev (2010). Structure of social networks in a passerine bird: consequences for sexual selection and the evolution of mating strategies. The American Naturalist, 176 (3): E80-E89, DOI: 10.1086/655216.

UNEXPECTED PREDATORS

ALMOST HUMAN (2)

Randić, S., et al (2012). A novel mammalian social structure in Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphins: complex male alliances in an open social network. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 279 (1740): 3083-3090.

DOLPHINS TO THE RESCUE

Goffman, O., and K. Lavalli (1996). Shark attack in the Gulf of Aqaba at Marsa Bareka, Sharm el Sheik and rescue of the swimmer by a pod of bottlenose dolphins, Tursiops truncatus, and the crew of the Jadran. http://immrac.haifa.ac.il/hebrew/sharkattack.htm. Downloaded on 04.08.12.

WHAT ON EARTH?

THE WOODLOUSE OR PILL BUG

Owen, Denis (1985). What’s in a Name: a look at the origins of plant and animal names. BBC, ISBN 0-563-20335-8.

NEW SPECIES

Lessard, B. D., and D. K. Yeates (2011). New species of the Australian horse fly subgenus Scaptia (Plinthina) Walker 1850 (Diptera: Tabanidae), including species descriptions and a revised key". Australian Journal of Entomology, 50 (3): 241–252.